On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Justin Pettit <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can you make sure you document this behavior in "vswitchd/vswitch.xml".

I forgot to do it. This patch probably will need another respin and I
will include it.
In the meanwhile, do you think the following change is good enough.

Here is an incremental with just the vswitch.xml changes.
diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
index c9d0dc4..c2786a5 100644
--- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
+++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
@@ -1164,6 +1164,9 @@
         port number for the OpenFlow ``local port'').  If the interface
         cannot be added then Open vSwitch sets this column
         to -1.</p>
+        <p>When <ref column="ofport_request"/> is not set, Open vSwitch picks
+        an appropriate value for this column and then tries to keep the value
+        constant across restarts.</p>
       </column>


>
> Thanks,
>
> --Justin
>
>
> On Nov 20, 2012, at 6:40 AM, Gurucharan Shetty <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> From: Gurucharan Shetty <[email protected]>
>>
>> Currently, the 'ofport' column in Interface table is
>> ephemeral and is populated by vswitchd everytime it is
>> started or when a new interface is created with vswitchd
>> running.
>>
>> Making it persistent lets vswitchd try and assign the
>> same ofport number to a particular interface across
>> restarts. This is just a fallback option when
>> 'ofport_request' column is empty.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> vswitchd/bridge.c          |   15 ++++++++++-----
>> vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema |    7 +++----
>> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/vswitchd/bridge.c b/vswitchd/bridge.c
>> index d1e24d0..8f16432 100644
>> --- a/vswitchd/bridge.c
>> +++ b/vswitchd/bridge.c
>> @@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ static void iface_refresh_cfm_stats(struct iface *);
>> static void iface_refresh_stats(struct iface *);
>> static void iface_refresh_status(struct iface *);
>> static bool iface_is_synthetic(const struct iface *);
>> +static int64_t iface_pick_ofport(const struct ovsrec_interface *);
>>
>> /* Linux VLAN device support (e.g. "eth0.10" for VLAN 10.)
>>  *
>> @@ -295,8 +296,7 @@ bridge_init_ofproto(const struct ovsrec_open_vswitch 
>> *cfg)
>>                     iface_hint = xmalloc(sizeof *iface_hint);
>>                     iface_hint->br_name = br_cfg->name;
>>                     iface_hint->br_type = br_cfg->datapath_type;
>> -                    iface_hint->ofp_port = if_cfg->n_ofport_request ?
>> -                        *if_cfg->ofport_request : OFPP_NONE;
>> +                    iface_hint->ofp_port = iface_pick_ofport(if_cfg);
>>
>>                     shash_add(&iface_hints, if_cfg->name, iface_hint);
>>                 }
>> @@ -322,7 +322,6 @@ bridge_init(const char *remote)
>>     idl = ovsdb_idl_create(remote, &ovsrec_idl_class, true);
>>     idl_seqno = ovsdb_idl_get_seqno(idl);
>>     ovsdb_idl_set_lock(idl, "ovs_vswitchd");
>> -    ovsdb_idl_verify_write_only(idl);
>>
>>     ovsdb_idl_omit_alert(idl, &ovsrec_open_vswitch_col_cur_cfg);
>>     ovsdb_idl_omit_alert(idl, &ovsrec_open_vswitch_col_statistics);
>> @@ -347,7 +346,6 @@ bridge_init(const char *remote)
>>     ovsdb_idl_omit_alert(idl, &ovsrec_interface_col_link_state);
>>     ovsdb_idl_omit_alert(idl, &ovsrec_interface_col_link_resets);
>>     ovsdb_idl_omit_alert(idl, &ovsrec_interface_col_mtu);
>> -    ovsdb_idl_omit_alert(idl, &ovsrec_interface_col_ofport);
>>     ovsdb_idl_omit_alert(idl, &ovsrec_interface_col_statistics);
>>     ovsdb_idl_omit_alert(idl, &ovsrec_interface_col_status);
>>     ovsdb_idl_omit_alert(idl, &ovsrec_interface_col_cfm_fault);
>> @@ -2545,7 +2543,7 @@ bridge_queue_if_cfg(struct bridge *br,
>>
>>     if_cfg->cfg = cfg;
>>     if_cfg->parent = parent;
>> -    if_cfg->ofport = cfg->n_ofport_request ? *cfg->ofport_request : 
>> OFPP_NONE;
>> +    if_cfg->ofport = iface_pick_ofport(cfg);
>>     hmap_insert(&br->if_cfg_todo, &if_cfg->hmap_node,
>>                 hash_string(if_cfg->cfg->name, 0));
>> }
>> @@ -3478,6 +3476,13 @@ iface_is_synthetic(const struct iface *iface)
>>     return ovsdb_idl_row_is_synthetic(&iface->cfg->header_);
>> }
>>
>> +static int64_t
>> +iface_pick_ofport(const struct ovsrec_interface *cfg)
>> +{
>> +    int64_t ofport = cfg->n_ofport ? *cfg->ofport : OFPP_NONE;
>> +    return cfg->n_ofport_request ? *cfg->ofport_request : ofport;
>> +}
>> +
>>
>> /* Port mirroring. */
>>
>> diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema b/vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema
>> index fd2bb4b..293a11b 100644
>> --- a/vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema
>> +++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema
>> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>> {"name": "Open_vSwitch",
>> - "version": "6.11.1",
>> - "cksum": "2684374538 17324",
>> + "version": "6.11.2",
>> + "cksum": "2033079075 17296",
>>  "tables": {
>>    "Open_vSwitch": {
>>      "columns": {
>> @@ -180,8 +180,7 @@
>>        "external_ids": {
>>          "type": {"key": "string", "value": "string", "min": 0, "max": 
>> "unlimited"}},
>>        "ofport": {
>> -         "type": {"key": "integer", "min": 0, "max": 1},
>> -         "ephemeral": true},
>> +         "type": {"key": "integer", "min": 0, "max": 1}},
>>        "ofport_request": {
>>          "type": {
>>            "key": {"type": "integer",
>> --
>> 1.7.9.5
>>
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